The Garwin Archive - 2000-2008

• "Ballistic Missile Defense in Context", by R. L. Garwin, Prepared testimony for the Hearing, "What are the Prospects, What are the Costs?"
  Oversight of Missile Defense (Part 2) of the National Security and Foreign Affairs Subcommittee of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, April 16, 2008.
• "Pief's Contributions to Arms Control and Nuclear Disarmament," by R.L. Garwin, Panofsky Lecture, XVI Amaldi Conference, Hamburg, Germany, March 14, 2008.
• "When could Iran deliver a nuclear weapon?" by R.L. Garwin, published atThe Bulletin Online, January 18, 2008
• "SWU_Calculations (version 3).xls". This live spreadsheet, when downloaded to any computer with Excel or a compatible program, allows the user to specify the U-235 concentration (in per cent) for the "product", "waste" or "tails", and the "feed" to an ideal enrichment cascade. Optionally, the mass of product (kg) in column E can be specified as well. December 31, 2007
• "Limiting the Hazards of Nuclear Weapons in a World of Nuclear Power," by R.L. Garwin.  A talk for The Santa Fe Council on International Relations, Santa Fe, NM, December 1, 2007.
  
• "An air traffic control system, for the twentieth(!) century," by R.L. Garwin, a column for the Online archive of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,November 5, 2007.
• "How the mighty have fallen," Essay in Nature, Vol. 449, p. 543, October 4, 2007.
• "Ballistic Missile Defense Deployment to Poland and the Czech Republic," by R.L. Garwin.  A talk for the Erice International Seminars, 38th Session, August 21, 2007.
• Commentary by R.L. Garwin, "The rush to replace Trident," from Nature Physics, May 2007.
  
• "A Major Expansion of Nuclear Power to Fight Global Warming? Problems and Prospects" Cornell University Physics Colloquium, April 16, 2007. This presentation conisted of a question and answer session that followed a repeat presentation of two previous talks:"Can the World Do Without Nuclear Power? Can the World Live With Nuclear Power," by R.L. Garwin, presented at the Nuclear Control Institute, Washington, DC, April 9, 2001. and "GNEP: Leap before looking," by R.L. Garwin. Presented at session NUCL 61, American Chemical Society annual meeting, Chicago, Illinois, March 27,2007. Both are to be found on this site, www.fas.org/RLG/
• "Increasing Rather Than Losing Public Support for the U.S. Food Aid Program," by R.L. Garwin.  Unpublished Letter to The Washington Post, April 11, 2007.
• "Sean Bell and Identification of Undercover Police," by R.L. Garwin.  Unpubllished Letter to the Editor, The New York Times, April 11, 2007.
• "Pugwash at 50: Much To Do and How To Do It," by R.L. Garwin.  Opening address for the 14th Annual Meeting, Student Pugwash USA, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, April 12, 2007.
• "The Role of Fast-Neutron Reactors in the Treatment of Nuclear Waste and a Major Expansion of Nuclear Power Worldwide" by Richard L. Garwin, presented at a Mini-Symposium on Nuclear Technology at the Eisenhower Institute, April 9, 2007.
  
• "The Reliable Replacement Warhead" by Richard L.Garwin (Testimony of March 29, 2007 for the Energy and Water Development Subcommittee of the House Committee on Appropriations).
• "GNEP: Leap before looking," by R.L. Garwin. Presented at session NUCL 61, American Chemical Society annual meeting, Chicago, Illinois, March 27,2007.
• "GNEP and Plutonium Recycle in the US Nuclear Power System," A briefing for House staff, House of Representatives, March 19, 2007.
• "Personal Experience in Advising the U.S. Government: 1956-2007+," by R.L. Garwin.  A contribution to the session Science Advising on Security Issues II in the Cornell-PRIF Conference on Science Advising and International Security, February 23-24, 2007, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
• "Supplementary memorandum from Prof. Richard L. Garwin" of Feb. 19, 2007, responding to Ministry of Defence testimony of Feb. 6, 2007 that bears on R.L. Garwin written evidence and oral testimony of Jan. 23, 2007 regarding the matter of replacement submarines for the 4 UK Trident boats.
  
• "Plutonium Recycle in the U.S. Nuclear Power System?" by R.L. Garwin.  Presentation on GNEP at AAAS Symposium session in San Francisco, CA, February 17, 2007.
• Written evidence submitted to the Defense Committee of the House of Commons in the matter of replacement submarines for the 4 UK Trident boats. The attachment is relevant 1978 correspondence with the U.S. Navy. Evidence authored by Richard L. Garwin, Philip E. Coyle, Theodore A. Postol, and Frank von Hippel. Testimony presented orally 01/23/07.
• U.S. national security and U.S. governance," by R.L. Garwin, first of four contributions by R.L. Garwin to The Bulletin On-line, January 2007. To be found at http://www.thebulletin.org/columns/richard-garwin/20070109.html"
• "Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons-- recent work of the World Lab and the World Federation of Scientists," presented by R.L. Garwin to the World Federation of Scientists session at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Vatican City, December 21, 2006.  This is a brief summary of the work done by the Nonproliferation Panel (and the Mitigation Panel of the Permanent Monitoring Panel on Terrorism) of the World Federation of Scientists.
• "Innovation for Fun and Profit," by R.L. Garwin, Keynote Address to the Eighth Annual InnoVision Technology Award Dinner, Greenville, SC, November 15, 2006.
• "Next Flu Pandemic: What to Do Until the Vaccine Arrives?" by Stephen S. Morse,: Richard L. Garwin, Paula J. Olsiewski. regarding the urgent need for information on how best to protect the public until a vaccine can be made available, SCIENCE VOL 314 10 NOVEMBER 2006.
• "Analyzing the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership-- GNEP," by R.L. Garwin.  Presentation to the NRC Committee on Internationalization of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle, October 17, 2006.
• "Nuclear Power Need Not Lead to the Acquisition of Nuclear Weapons," paper by R.L. Garwin, presented at the 10th PIIC Beijing Seminar on International Security, Xiamen, Fujian Province, China, 25-28 September 2006.
• Global Nuclear Power Future," by J. Bouchard, C. Difiglio, S. Fetter, P.J. Finck, W. Fulkerson, R.L. Garwin, R. Hoskins, K. Matsui, and C. McCombie. Conclusions and Recommendations of Erice International Seminars day-long session on Global Nuclear Power Futures, August 20, 2006.
• 09/15/06 letter R.L. Garwin to Senators McCain, Warner, Lindsay Graham and Carl Levin regarding the "Military Commissions Act of 2006." The letter notes that President Bush, while in office, could pardon interrogators charged with crimes under U.S. law.
• "The Secret Hans", by R.L. Garwin.  Presented at the Celebration of the 100th Birthday of Hans Bethe, Aspen Center for Physics, Aspen, CO, August 4, 2006.
• "06/16/06 Letter R.L. Garwin to D.R. Spurgeon regarding GNEP"
• "Conquering Pandemic Flu by Practical Measures," as adopted by the Mitigation Sub-Group of the Permanent Monitoring Panel on Terrorism of the World Federation of Scientists, Erice, Sicily, May 22, 2006. Membership of the Sub-Group on Mitigation Aspects: Dr. Diego Buriot, Dr. Kevin Clark, Professor Baruch Fischhoff, Professor Richard L.Garwin (Chairman), Professor Pervez Hoodbhoy, Dr. Sally Leivesley, Professor Ron Manley, Professor Richard Wilson.
• "R&D Priorities For the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership," by R.L. Garwin, (Slides) 5-minute oral testimony at hearing of the Subcommittee on Energy of the Committee on Science, U.S. House of Representatives, "Hearing on R&D Priorities in the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership," April 6, 2006, Washington, DC.
• "R&D Priorities for GNEP," by R.L. Garwin, prepared testimony for hearing of the Subcommittee on Energy of the Committee on Science, U.S. House of Representatives, "Hearing on R&D Priorities in the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership," April 6, 2006, Washington, DC. (Supplemented for the Record with material added 06/25/06).
• "Expanding Nuclear Power While Managing the Risks of Accident and Proliferation," by R.L. Garwin, presentation for Euronuclear ENA2006 Brussels, March 29, 2006. All presentations can be found at www.ena2006.org.
• "The Future of Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Power," colloquium at the University of New Mexico, March 10, 2006, R.L. Garwin.
• "Face Masks in Context for Fighting Flu-- Health Care Workers and the General Public," by R.L. Garwin, presentation to the Institute of Medicine Study of Reusable Facemasks for Protection in Pandemic Influenza, March 6, 2006, Washington, DC.
• "A conversation with Richard Garwin," with D. Kestenbaum of National Public Radio, and the ensuing Q&A, sponsored by American Association for the Advancement of Science, January 10, 2006. Video and audio available at: http://www.aaas.org/programs/centers/cstsp/Events/Events_2006_0110.shtml
• "Nuclear Weapon Proliferation, Nuclear Terrorism, and Iran." This is a draft manuscript of December 5, 2005, edited and published in French in Diplomatie, No. 18, pp. 52-57 (Janvier-Février 2006) as "L'Iran et la prolifération des armes atomiques."
• "Synchronizing the Acoustic Evidence in the Assassination of President Kennedy," by Richard L. Garwin, Arthur M. Sackler Colloquium, "Forensic Science: The Nexus of Science and the Law," Washington, DC, November 17, 2005.
• "Chernobyl's real toll," by R.L. Garwin, revealing the deception in the Chernobyl Forum report. Published as an "outside view" in Europe Features of UPI.com, November 9, 2005.
• "The Future of Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Power," (Slides) by R.L. Garwin, presented at Argonne National Laboratory, Enrico Fermi lecture, October 6, 2005.
• "The Secret Hans," R.L. Garwin (expanded version; italicized paragraphs of text not presented 09/19/05), Cornell University, Celebrating an Exemplary Life of Hans Bethe, September 19, 2005.
• "Health of the Non-Proliferation Regime," by R.L. Garwin, 10-minute report in Erice, Sicily, August 2005.
• Letter to the Editor of Science from R.L. Garwin and F. von Hippel, "Missile defense agency blocks fraud investigations at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory," May 16, 2005.
• "Militarization of Space: Why not space weapons? Space-based missile defense?," by R.L. Garwin, NPRI session on Weaponization of Space May 16, 2005, Airlie, VA .
• "Living with Nuclear Weapons: Sixty years and Counting," by R.L. Garwin, TEXT presented to the American Philosophical Society on April 30, 2005-- update to R. Oppenheimer 11/16/45 talk to APS and NAS.
• "Living with nuclear weapons: 60 years going on 100 (if we are wise, vigorous, and lucky)" SLIDES, by R.L. Garwin, presented at American American Philosophical Society, R. Oppenheimer session April 30, 2005.
• "National Missile Defense: Prospects and Problems," by R.L. Garwin, presented at IEEE Aerospace Section Plenary, Big Sky, MT, March 6, 2005.
• "HEU DONE IT," by RichardL. Garwin, Letter to the Editor of Foreign Affairs, March/April 2005, in response to an article by Selig S. Harrison, "'Did North Korea Cheat?" in Foreign Affairs, January/February 2005.
• "Space Weapons: Crossing the U.S. Rubicon," Bruce M. DeBlois, Richard L.Garwin, R. Scott Kemp and Jeremy C. Marwell, International Security, Vol. 29, Issue 2 - Fall 2004, pp. 50 - 84.
• "Space Weapons: Good for Us or Bad?" the 2004 Lynford Lecture by R.L. Garwin at Polytechnic University of Brooklyn, Novemberf 4, 2004.
• "Science and National Intelligence," by R.L. Garwin, presented at the 32nd Session of the International Seminars on Planetary Emergencies, Erice, Sicily, August 20, 2004.
• "Nonlethal Weapons and Capabilities," Report of an Independent Task Force Sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations, R.L. Garwin, Project Director, G.T. Allison and P.X. Kelley, Co-Chairs, 2004.
• "A habit of distortion," Letter by R.L. Garwin regarding science advising, published in The Washington Times, April 3, 2004.
• "Nuclear arms control may reduce terrorism as well as avoid Hiroshimas, Garwin says," by D. Levy, published in in Stanford Report, March 18, 2004. A report on the Drell Lecture given by R.L. Garwin, March 9, 2004.
• March 15, 2004 Letter to Physics Today regarding the American Physical Society Study Group Report on Boost-Phase Intercept of July, 2003.
• "U.S. Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Explosion Testing," by R.L. Garwin, Drell Lecture at Stanford University, March 9, 2004 (lecture and slides).
• "Bush Sets the Right Course in Control of Land Mines," Op-Ed by R.L. Garwin, in the Los Angeles Times, March 8, 2004.
• "New navigation system essential for pilots ," by R.L. Garwin and James Bergman, Letter to the Editor, Washington Times, February 6, 2004.
• "Can Science and Technology Help to Counter Terrorism?" by R.L. Garwin, presented at the Indo-U.S. Workshop on S&T to Counter Terrorism, 12-14 January 2004, Goa, India.
• Letter to the Editor of The New York Times (unpublished), "An Elevator to Space?", by R.L. Garwin, September 26, 2003.
• "Precision Munitions and the Systems in Which They Are Embedded-- GPS, Mapping, High-Resolution Radar, and Non-Lethal Weapons," by R.L. Garwin, presented at the XV Amaldi Conference, Helsinki, September 25-27, 2003.
• Summary of Garwin's presentation at the National Defense University 08/14/03 on Boost-Phase Intercept, presented as part of a debate with Fred Lamb, co-chair of that Study Group.
• Radio (WBUR) interview "On Point," on Homeland Security. R.L. Garwin appeared with Julian Marshall of the BBC as host, James Carafano of the Heritage Foundation, and Marsha Crosse of the GAO, August 8, 2003.
• "Space Weapons: Not Yet," by R.L. Garwin, presented at Puwash Workshop on Preserving the Non-Weaponization of Space, Castellon de la Plana, Spain, May 22-24, 2003.
• "US National Security and Space Weapons," by R.L. Garwin, presented in the National Security and Military Space Workshop No. 1, Naval War College, Newport, RI, April 30, 2003.
• "Fun With Muons, GPS, Radar, etc.," by R.L. Garwin, Lee Historical Lecture, Harvard University, March 18, 2003.
• "Sound Science in Support of Sound Policy Decisions: Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Weapons as an Example," by R.L. Garwin, presented at Aspen Institute breakfast with members of Congress, March 6, 2003.
• Transcript of R.L. Garwin interview by Ms. Allison Smith, CBC Morning (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation), at 0815 February 24, 2003.
• "Science,Technology, Fission, and the Future," by R.L. Garwin, Keynote Speech presented at the American Nuclear Society Banquet, November 19, 2002.
• "Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and Materials to States and Non-State Actors: What it Means for the Future of Nuclear Power," by R.L. Garwin, presented at University of Michigan Symposium, October 4, 2002.
• Comment by R.L. Garwin on the 20 September 2002 SCIENCE article, "Nuclear Power Plants and Their Fuel as Terrorist Targets", September 19, 2002.
• "Nuclear and Biological Megaterrorism," by R.L. Garwin, presented at the 27th Session of the International Seminars on Planetary Emergencies, Erice, Sicily, August 19-24, 2002. (A shorter version was published in MIT's Sept. 2002 Technology Review, titled "The Technology of Megaterror" at http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/garwin0902.asp).
• "Reducing or Increasing the Nuclear Threat?", a background paper for the La Jolla Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs-- Science, Sustainability, Security. Providing views on the May, 2002 Moscow Treaty, the future of U.S.-Russian arms control, and the CTBT, August 10, 2002.
• "Technical Issues Related to the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (2002)" by John P. Holdren, et al., National Academies Press, July 31, 2002.
• Op-Ed for Washington Post endorsing alternatives to Crusader artillery system (unpublished, but distributed by the Office of the Secretary of Defense), May 20, 2002.
• Op-Ed for New York Times countering Administration statements as to the impossibility or difficulty of "destroying" or demilitarizing excess nuclear warheads (unpublished), May 20, 2002.
• "How to Fight Bioterrorism," by R.L. Garwin, R.E. Gomory,and M.S. Meselson, published in
  Washington Post, May 14, 2002.
• "The Atom Option," by R.L. Garwin in Newsweek International, April 8, 2002.
• "The Many Threats of Terror" and an Epilogue by R.L. Garwin in a New York Review Book "Striking Terror: America's New War," edited by R.B. Silvers and B. Epstein, March 2002, pp. 235-256.
• R.L. Garwin on National Public Radio's "Talk of the Nation", interviewed by Neal Conan on "Megawatts and Megatons: A Turning Point in the Nuclear Age?" as well as on his life in physics and public policy, March 5, 2002 (audio file).
• Review of "Megawatts and Megatons" by Michael Heylin, CHEMICAL & ENGINEERING NEWS, February 25, 2002.
• The Many Threats of Terror by R.L. Garwin, The New York Review of Books, November 1, 2001.
• "Enrico Fermi and Ethical Problems in Scientific Research," by R.L.^Garwin, presented at Public Lecture in the Centennial Celebration "Enrico Fermi and Modern Physics," Pisa, ITALY, October 19, 2001.
• Megawatts and Megatons - A Turning Point in the Nuclear Age? by R.L. Garwin and G. Charpak, Alfred A. Knopf, Publisher, New York, October 2001. Please see these IMPORTANT ERRATA for this title.
• "Working With Fermi at Chicago and Post-war Los Alamos," by R.L.Garwin, presented at University of Chicago, Enrico Fermi Celebration, September 29, 2001.
• Who Built the H Bomb? Debate Revives by William J. Broad, New York Times, April 24, 2001.
• "Can the World Do Without Nuclear Power? Can the World Live With Nuclear Power," by R.L. Garwin, presented at the Nuclear Control Institute, Washington, DC, April 9, 2001.
• "Missile Defense-- NMD, TMD, EMD ...," by R.L. Garwin, presented at the Aspen Institute, Berlin, GERMANY, March 1, 2001.
• "Maintaining Nuclear Weapons Safe and Reliable Under a CTBT," by R.L.Garwin, presented at AAAS Annual Meeting "The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and U.S. National Security Interests," San Francisco, CA, February 16, 2001.
• "Technologies and Procedures to Verify Warhead Status and Dismantlement," by R.L. Garwin, contribution for chapter of SIPRI-IFRI book, SIPRI Workshop, Paris, 02/08-09/01.
• "Count on Rumsfeld, Not the Missile Shield," Op-Ed by R.L. Garwin, The New York Times, December 30, 2000.
• "Union of Scientists has Defensible Concerns," by R.L. Garwin and K. Gottfried, Op-Ed in the Washington Times, December 17, 2000.
• "Clandestine Testing Under a CTBT," by R.L. Garwin, Chapter VI in Lawyers Alliance For World Security White Paper on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, Fall 2000, pp. 49-53.
• Boost-Phase Intercept: A Better Alternative, Arms Control Today, September 2000
• Boost-Phase Intercept -- Not If, But When Richard L. Garwin, GUEST PERSPECTIVE (Inside Missile Defense, July 12, 2000)
• A Defense that Will Not Defend Richard L. Garwin The Washington Quarterly Summer 2000 -- The current defense system, as planned, will not defend against even four or five suitably-equipped missiles. We are far from being ready to make a deployment decision. There is a better way.
• Maintaining Nuclear Weapons Safe and Reliable Under a CTBT. What Types of Weapons Can Be Developed Without Nuclear Explosions? by Richard L. Garwin - Special session on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty at the American Geophysical Union Spring Meeting Washington, DC May 31, 2000
• Graduation Speech by R.L. Garwin for the Berkeley Physics and Astronomy Departments, May 19, 2000.
• CONTROL OF NUCLEAR ARMS AT CROSSROADS Chemical and Engineering News 08 May 2000 -- Nuclear weapons guru Richard Garwin mulls post-Cold War era of heightened concerns about nuclear arms proliferation.
• "Fire From Above," book review by R.L. Garwin of "WAY OUT THERE IN THE BLUE, Reagan, Star Wars, and the End of the Cold War," by Frances Fitzgerald, published in the Los Angeles Times Book Review Section, April 30, 2000.
• "Space Weapons or Space Arms Control", Presented at the American Philosophical Society's Annual General Meeting in the symposium: "Ballistic Missile Defense, Space, and the Danger of Nuclear War," April 29, 2000
• "Countermeasures," A Technical Evaluation of the Operational Effectiveness of the Planned U.S. National Missile Defense System, (Executive Sumamry and full text) UCS-MIT Study, A.M. Sessler (Chair of the Study Group), J.M. Cornwall, R. Dietz, S.A. Fetter, S. Frankel, R.L. Garwin, K. Gottfried, L. Gronlund, G.N. Lewis, T.A. Postol, and D.C. Wright, April 2000.
• The Wrong Plan by Richard L. Garwin Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists March/April 2000, Vol. 56, No. 2, pp. 36-41
• "The Future of Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control," by R.L. Garwin, presented at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, March 21, 2000.
• "Elimination of the Longterm Humanitarian Hazard of Stockpiled Antipersonnel Landmines ," by R.L. Garwin, Chairman, State Department Arms Control and Nonproliferation Advisory Board, presented to Committee of the National Research Council, Irvine, CA 01/13/00.